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A VIRTUAL EVENING WITH PICO IYER IN CONVERSATION WITH MICHAEL SHAPIRO

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From “one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time” (BrainPickings): a journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world. “Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul…A masterpiece.” — #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth […]

An Evening With Siddhartha Mukherjee

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In The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human, Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., an academic, cancer physician, and researcher, tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Mukherjee seduces the reader with vivid, lucid, and suspenseful writing […]

Stacy Schiff With David S. Brown: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd, eloquent, and intensely disciplined man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. Moderating is David S. Brown, […]

Reza Aslan on An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville: Nonfiction

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville, Reza Aslan explores the story of Howard Baskerville, a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton. Baskerville is a believer in the gospel of Jesus – and […]

Ada Calhoun & Maud Newton: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me, Ada Calhoun explores her relationship with her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, as she provides new insights into the life of O'Hara, one of our most important poets. The result […]

Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa, Kerri K. Greenidge & Ellis Cose: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Long before his name became synonymous with civil rights, George Floyd, murdered outside of a Minneapolis convenience store by a white police officer, was a father, partner, athlete, and friend striving for a better life. Deeply researched, His Name Is George […]

Namwali Serpell & Jacinda Townsend: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Namwali Serpell’s The Furrows: A Novel tells the story of Cassandra Williams, who was 12 when her 7-year-old brother, Wayne, is lost forever. Years later, Cassandra meets a man mysterious and familiar, who is also searching for someone and his own […]

Hernan Diaz, Jill Bialosky & Karen Joy Fowler: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Hernan Diaz's Trust: A Novel follows the wealthy Benjamin and Helen Rask in 1920s New York. Even in a decade of excess and speculation, at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? The life of the unnamed narrator of Jill […]

April Ryan on Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem: Nonfiction

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem, White House correspondent April Ryan argues that, since the birth of our nation, Black women have transformed their pain into progress and have been at the frontlines of the country’s political, social, […]

Blitz Bazawule & Michael Imperioli: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Blitz Bazawule’s debut, The Scent of Burnt Flowers: A Novel, follows Melvin and his fiancé, Bernadette, from a parking lot in Alabama to Ghana. With a persistent FBI agent on their trail and an unexpected encounter with a highlife musician adding […]

Billy Porter With Ana Navarro: A Conversation: Memoir

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Acclaimed actor, recording artist, playwright, and director Billy Porter can now add published author to his long list of accomplishments. Unprotected: A Memoir – a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing – is the story of a […]

Susan Rogers With Nelson George: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus.  In This is What it Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You, Susan Rogers, Ph.D., and her co-author, Ogi Ogas, Ph.D., explain why we fall in love with music. Readers are guided to recognize their “listener profile” based on responses to seven key […]

Sebastian Mallaby on The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future: Nonfiction

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Sebastian Mallaby’s The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future tells the story of Silicon Valley’s dominant venture capital firms – and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation and the global economy. […]

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Jean Hanff Korelitz & Dani Shapiro: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s Good Company: A Novel, Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than 20 years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her best friend, Margot, is upended when she finds an envelope […]

Moshe Safdie on If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture: Nonfiction

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture, Moshe Safdie takes readers behind the veil of an essential yet mysterious profession, explaining, through his own experiences, how an architect thinks and works. Committed to architecture as a social force for […]

Jeff Deutsch, Tananarive Due, Hernan Diaz & Robert Martin With Pamela Paul: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Do we need bookstores in the 21st century? And if so, what makes a good one? With In Praise of Good Bookstores, Jeff Deutsch – director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world – offers […]

Billy-Ray Belcourt on A Minor Chorus: A Novel: Fiction

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In Billy-Ray Belcourt’s A Minor Chorus: A Novel, set against the stark expanse of Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. His work is informed by a series of poignant encounters, including a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized […]

“Caribbean Layouts”: Jessica Oublié, Ralph Penel Pierre & Chevelin Pierre

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Graphic artists and writers from Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Haiti provide perspectives on how to better craft graphic novels and comic books that honor Caribbean sensibilities. With Jessica Oublié (Guadeloupe/Martinique), Ralph Penel Pierre (Haiti), and Chevelin Pierre (Haiti), moderated by author and ReadCaribbean coordinator M.J. Fievre . Special introduction by Anthoni Dominguez, director of Villa Albertine, […]

An Evening With Jose “Fat Joe” Cartagena with DJ Khaled

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In The Book of Jose: A Memoir, written with journalist and entrepreneur Shaheem Reid, hip-hop legend Jose “Fat Joe” Cartagena tells the story of a kid who grew in New York's South Bronx during its darkest years of drugs, violence, and abandonment, and how he navigated that traumatizing landscape until he found – through art, […]

Sy Montgomery, Jack E. Davis & Tony Hiss: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty, Sy Montgomery reveals the wondrous world of these birds and what they can teach us about nature, life, and love. These are no pets but fierce predators, deeply emotional, quick to anger and […]

Sandra Cisneros & Manuel Muñoz: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Woman Without Shame: Poems is Sandra Cisneros’ first book of poetry in 28 years. The collection comprises dozens of never-before-seen poems and includes songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a […]

“Writing Children, Writing Ourselves”: Janet Morrison, Jean Hawthorn-DaCosta & Juleus Ghunta

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Children’s writers from Jamaica get together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the island’s independence, and explore the continuity and convergence of childhood and adulthood in Caribbean fiction. With Janet Morrison on A Different Me, A Better You, Jean Hawthorn-DaCosta on Leroy: Adventures of a Yaad Boy, and Juleus Ghunta on Rohan Bullkin and the […]

Mustafa Akyol on Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance: Nonfiction

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In Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance, Mustafa Akyol diagnoses “the crisis of Islam” in the modern world and offers a way forward. He argues that values often associated with Western Enlightenment – freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science – had Islamic counterparts, which sadly were cast aside in […]

Jonathan Escoffery & A.M. Homes With Yvonne Conza: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You: Stories, Topper, Sanya, and their two children flee to Miami in the 1970s to escape the political violence of their native Kingston, Jamaica. But America is hardly the promised land. The linked stories center […]

Scott Turow, Craig Johnson & Brad Meltzer: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Scott Turow’s Suspect: A Thriller, three male police officers accuse Lucia Gomez, the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, of soliciting sex for promotions. She insists the accusations are designed to destroy her career and empower her enemies, […]

Ignacio Julià, Thurston Moore, James Hamilton & Michael Imperioli: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Ignacio Julià started writing about film and music in underground magazine Star in 1977. Linger On: The Velvet Underground is the definitive collection of his interviews with all members of the iconic, New York-born band, dating back to the 1970s. Joining […]

John Freeman, Tess Gunty, Eileen Myles & Christopher Soto: A Conversation

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In author and editor John Freeman's anthology Animals – featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Martín Espada, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more – he explores the irrevocably intertwined lives of animals and the humans that exist alongside them. In Pathetic Literature, Eileen Myles presents a global anthology of pieces selected from lesser-known […]

Philip Short, Michael Beckley & Meenakshi Ahamed With Sebastian Mallaby: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Philip Short’s timely Putin is a deeply researched biography that draws on almost 200 interviews conducted over eight years in Russia, the United States, and Europe. To the fullest extent anyone has yet been able, Short cracks open Vladimir Putin’s thick […]

Rabia Chaudry & Rafael Agustin: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family is Rabia Chaudry’s love letter (with recipes) to fresh roti, chaat, chicken biryani, ghee, and pakoras – and an often hilarious dissection of life in a Muslim immigrant family. It […]

“Children’s Lit in Cuba, Puerto Rico & Haiti”: Terry Catasús Jennings, Raúl Colón, Lesléa Newman, Elizabeth Baez & M.J. Fievre

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Writers and illustrators from Cuba, Puerto-Rico, and Haiti put forth visions for a more expansive future in Caribbean literature for young readers. With Terry Catasús Jennings and Raúl Colón (Cuba) on The Little House of Hope, Lesléa Newman and Elizabeth Baez (Puerto Rico) on Alicia and The Hurricane: A Story of Puerto Rico/Alicia Y El […]

Jonathan Evison, Jess Walter, Jonathan Ames & Antoine Wilson: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. Jonathan Evison’s Small World: A Novel is set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate. In exploring their lives and those of […]

“Palestinian Lives: Past & Present”: Etaf Rum, Susan Abulhawa & Suad Amiry

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In Etaf Rum's A Woman Is No Man: A Novel, Deya, Isra, and Fareeda – three Palestinian American women spanning as many generations – deal with their roles and the expectations of their community. Isra and her eldest daughter, Deya, prefer books and college to arranged marriages. Fareeda, the traditionalist matriarch, believes a woman's future […]

Javier Zamora & Ly Tran With Maria Hinojosa: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Solito: A Memoir, poet Javier Zamora offers an intimate account of his treacherous, near-impossible journey at age 9 from his small town in El Salvador through Guatemala and Mexico and across the U.S. border. Solito is Zamora’s story – but […]

Ann Hood & Jessi Hempel: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Fly Girl: A Memoir, novelist Ann Hood reflects on her time as a flight attendant. She learned how to evacuate seven kinds of aircraft, deliver a baby, mix proper cocktails, administer oxygen, and fend off passengers’ advances – while walking […]

Lenny Kaye With Rachel Felder: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll, Lenny Kaye, a founding member of Patti Smith and Her Band, offers an insider’s take on the evolution and enduring legacy of the music that rocked the 20th century. His 10 […]

Lisa Genova & Daniel Bergner With Melodie Winawer: A Conversation

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In Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting, neuroscientist and novelist Lisa Genova explores how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories. You might even be worried that your memory lapses could be an early sign of Alzheimer's or dementia. But, as it turns out, […]

Katy Tur With Tony Dokoupil: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Rough Draft: A Memoir, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur writes about her eccentric and volatile California childhood, punctuated by forest fires, earthquakes, and police chases, all seen from a thousand feet in the air – her parents pioneered helicopter journalism and […]

“Our Beautiful and Corrupted Islands”: Pamela Mordecai, Mc. Donald Dixon & Celeste Mohammed

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Caribbean writers explore the dichotomies that permeate life in the Caribbean, a place that is vibrant and joyous but also riddled with corruption and violence. They discuss the fascinating traditions and values that bind Caribbean people, but also the literal and metaphorical walls that divide them and the struggle to overcome the consequences imposed by […]

Robert Pinsky With Campbell McGrath: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet, Robert Pinsky, a U.S. poet laureate (1997-2000) and Pulitzer Prize finalist, traces the roots of his poetry to the voices of his boyhood neighborhood, Long Branch – a historic but run-down New Jersey shore […]

Keith Corbin, Will Jawando & D. Watkins: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival, Keith Corbin, born on the home turf of the notorious Grape Street Crips in 1980s Watts, Los Angeles, tells his story – from cooking crack at age 13 and a stint […]

Paulina Porizkova With Dani Shapiro: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, writer and former supermodel Paulina Porizkova offers a compelling exploration of heartbreak, grief, beauty, aging, relationships, reinvention, and finding your purpose. In these essays, she bares her soul and shares the […]

Mikkael Sekeres With Gerald Posner: A Conversation

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Before the Food and Drug Administration existed, drugmakers could hawk any potion, claim treatment for any ailment, and make any promise on a label with impunity. In Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust, Mikkael Sekeres, M.D., a leading oncologist and former chair of the FDA's cancer drug advisory committee, tells the […]

Larry Csonka With Dave Barry: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Head On: A Memoir, NFL Hall of Famer Larry Csonka pulls back the curtain to share how the 1972 Miami Dolphins achieved their perfect season. But moments outside the spotlight reveal the most about this larger-than-life figure, as Csonka speaks […]

Erich Schwartzel on Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy: Fiction

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel offers an eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that explores the surprising role of the movie business in the high-stakes contest between the U.S. and China. The result […]

“Caribbean Myths & Realities”: Jasmine Sealy, Opal Palmer Adisa, & Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

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Four Caribbean writers discuss the unreality of reality and the truth of the fantastic in their work. Jasmine Sealy (Barbados) on The Island of Forgetting, Opal Palmer Adisa (Jamaica) on The Storyteller’s Return: Story Poems, and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Trinidad) on When We Were Birds: A Novel. Moderating is Myriam J. A. Chancy (Haiti), author […]

National Book Foundation Presents: The 2022 National Book Awards

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. The National Book Foundation presents the 2022 National Book Award longlisters, finalists, and winners, in an annual super-sized showcase of readings and conversation, moderated by Ruth Dickey, executive director of the National Book Foundation. Featuring Fatimah Asghar, Derrick Barnes, Isaac Blum, […]

Michael Fanone With Tom Hudson: A Conversation

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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com. In Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America’s Soul, former Metropolitan Police Department officer and current CNN analyst Michael Fanone tells the story of the day insurrectionists stormed the Capitol – a day he nearly lost his […]

Patti Smith With Lenny Kaye: Songs & Stories From A Book of Days

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With more than 365 photographs taking you through a single year, A Book of Days offers a new way to experience the expansive mind of Patti Smith – visionary poet, writer, and performer. Including photos from her Instagram account, vintage images, and archives, the book charts her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims, and opens with […]

Cultura abierta vs. cancelación. Panel de la Cátedra Vargas Llosa.

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Esta presentación en persona también será transmitida en MiamiBookFair.com. ¿Entramos en una nueva era puritana? ¿Existe un nuevo activismo liberticida? Hay temor a expresarse, en la universidad y en la empresa, y a cómo será interpretada una canción, una obra literaria o un artículo de opinión. Las libertades de expresión y creación parecen en recesión […]

Michelle Huneven on Search: A Novel: Fiction

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Michelle Huneven’s Search: A Novel follows Dana, restaurant critic, food writer, and member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist church in Southern California, as she writes a memoir-with-recipes about her work on the committee tasked with finding a new minister for the congregation – a search that boils down a stark choice between two very different […]

Julia Armfield on Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel: Fiction

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Julia Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel follows marine biologist Leah, who left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time, her submarine sank to the sea floor. Now Leah is changed. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife, Miri, knows something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her […]

Joyce Maynard on Count the Ways: A Novel: Fiction

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In Count the Ways: A Novel, bestselling author Joyce Maynard follows the arc of the lives of Eleanor and Cam. From their meeting at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s, to having three children and a family life of softball games in the summer, snow days by the fire, and small traditions […]

Homenaje a José Saramago

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Para celebrar el centenario del escritor portugués José Saramago, la Feria del Libro de Miami organiza un homenaje al Premio Nobel de Literatura 1988 y autor de obras tan importantes como Memorial del convento, Todos los nombres y El hombre duplicado, al que han sido invitadas Pilar del Río, esposa y traductora de buena parte […]

Una tarde con Guillermo Schavelzon

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Guillermo “Willie” Schavelzon, uno de los agentes literarios más importantes del mundo, quien fundó en 1998 la agencia literaria Schavelzon Graham con sede en Barcelona, y que representa a casi cien autores, presenta El enigma del oficio, libro en el que hace un recorrido por su larga carrera. Conversa con él la escritora, periodista y […]

Jorie Graham on [To] the Last [Be] Human: Poetry

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​​ The Last Human collects four extraordinary poetry books – Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway – by Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, presenting a body of work that stands as a “lyric record” of the calamitous decades that began the 21st century. To read these four books in a single volume is to experience vastly complex […]

Let’s Make History! Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Create Your Own Comics

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Make your own way through history! Readers will tackle seventy-one comic-creating challenges, with help from some of their favorite characters from the series! With each challenge, young cartoonists will learn new skills, from sound effects and character creation to building their own ten-page comic. This hardcore comics workbook will get kids writing their own thrilling, […]

An Evening With Jimmy Johnson & Dave Hyde

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In Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs: A Memoir, Hall of Fame coach and TV analyst Jimmy Johnson offers a candid account of his life experiences. More than a highlight reel, Swagger reveals Johnson's lessons learned both as a man and as a coach – from the revelations following his mother's death to coaching […]

La dolarización de Ecuador

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El expresidente de Ecuador Jamil Mahuad se presenta en conversación con la periodista argentina Adriana Bianco sobre su libro Así dolarizamos el Ecuador. Memorias de un acierto histórico en América Latina, un recuento histórico y político de los hechos que llevaron a dolarizar la economía ecuatoriana.

Phil Klay, Elliot Ackerman & Ben Kesling: A Conversation

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Phil Klay’s Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War notes that relatively few Americans have had to do any real grappling with the endless, invisible conflicts of the post-9/11 world; in fact, increasingly few people are even aware they are still going on. But while American military actions abroad may be out […]

Beatrice Hitchman on All Of You Every Single One: A Novel: Fiction

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Set in Vienna from 1910 to 1946, Beatrice Hitchman’s All Of You Every Single One: A Novel explores – through the lives of its queer characters in one of the greatest cities of the age – what it’s like living through oppression, how personal decisions become political, and how far one will go to protect […]

Celeste Mohammed With Tracey Baptiste: A Conversation

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Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and Coke. To outsiders, these idyllic images represent the so-called easy life in Caribbean nations such as Trinidad and Tobago. For those who live there the reality is very different, and in Pleasantview: A Novel in Stories, Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer Celeste Mohammed reveals a society where poverty and patriarchy savagely rule – […]

“Disability Activism”: Ben Mattlin, Akemi Nishida & Heidi Johnson-Wright

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In Disability Pride, Dispatches From a Post-ADA World, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin explores how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Written without anger or pity, it’s a revealing account of an often misunderstood movement and identity, and an inclusive reexamination of society’s treatment of those it deems […]

“Ask Me Anything: The Monster Edition”: Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories: Yamile Saied Mendez, Amparo Ortiz, Chantel Acevedo, Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite, M. García Peña & Ari Tison: Young Adult Fiction

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From zombies to cannibals to death incarnate, this cross-genre anthology offers something for every monster lover. In Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz, bloodthirsty vampires are hunted by a quick-witted slayer; children are stolen from their beds by “el viejo de la bolsa” while […]

Ficcionalizar la política del Cono Sur

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Fernando Butazzoni, narrador, ensayista, periodista, guionista cinematográfico y dramaturgo uruguayo, presenta Las cenizas del Cóndor, novela inspirada en acontecimientos reales ocurridos en Uruguay, Chile y Argentina durante las dictaduras militares. Conversa con el autor Julián Ubiría, director editorial de Penguin Random House Uruguay.

2021 National Poetry Series Winner No’u Revilla

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The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair to award the Paz Prize in Poetry, which ensures bilingual publication for a book […]

“Restlessness, Reflection & Revolution”: Dana Levin, Jana Prikryl & Jenny Xie

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Dana Levin’s Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out of the old lyric, working in a variety of forms, calling on beloveds and ancestors, great thinkers and religions – convened by her own spun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality. In Midwood: Poems, Jana Prikryl probes the notion of midlife, […]

Robert Jones Jr. on The Prophets: A Novel: Fiction

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Robert Jones Jr.’s The Prophets – his debut novel – tells the story of Samuel and Isaiah, slaves whose love creates a refuge in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man, a fellow slave, seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on […]

An Evening With Harvey Fierstein With Peter Gethers

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In I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir, Tony Award-winning author Harvey Fierstein's candid recollections of his life provide a rich window into downtown New York City life, the gay rights movements of the 1970s, the tumultuous AIDS crisis of the '80s, the evolution of theater, and his family's journey of acceptance. It turns out […]

Anthony Horowitz on The Twist of a Knife: A Novel: Fiction

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After three books, Anthony Horowitz, the central character in Anthony Horowitz’s The Twist of a Knife: A Novel splits from ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne. He has a new play opening in London’s West End to attend to. But when Sunday Times critic Margaret Throsby pans the production and then winds up stabbed in the heart with […]

Imogen Crimp on A Very Nice Girl: A Novel: Fiction

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In Imogen Crimp’s A Very Nice Girl: A Novel, Anna unexpectedly wins a place at the London Conservatory. Max, a man she meets in the bar where she sings, is everything she’s not: rich, tailored to precision, impossible to read. Soon, her infatuation with him starts to turn her away from her career – and […]

Nikki May on Wahala: A Novel: Fiction

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Nikki May’s debut novel, Wahala: A Novel, follows three Anglo Nigerian best friends. Ronke, who wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids, is dating Kayode, who her friends think is just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends. Boo, who has everything Ronke wants but is frustrated, unfulfilled, plagued by guilt, and desperate […]

Tom Mustill, Priyanka Kumar & Sy Montgomery: A Conversation

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After surviving a humpback whale crashing into his kayak, Tom Mustill turned to his experience as a naturalist and wildlife filmmaker to investigate human-whale interactions around the world. And in How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication, he examines how artificial intelligence – originally designed to translate human languages – […]

“Fact or Cap: Friendship, Filters, and the Self-Love Revolution”: Kacen Callender, Crystal Maldonado, Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt

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In Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender, when Lark’s former best friend Kasim accidentally posts a thread on Twitter declaring his love for a secret unrequited crush, Lark’s social media stats and messy emotions explode, setting them on a journey to speak the truth and discover how self-love can be a revolution. […]

Dan Wakefield on Kurt Vonnegut: The Making of a Writer: Young Adult Fiction

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This first and only YA biography of the great American novelist and humanist comes out on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat’s Cradle, and many other brilliant novels and short stories, is one of our greatest American writers. Born in 1922, Vonnegut’s life was full […]

“I’m Holding Out for a Hero”: Nick Brooks, Preeti Chhibber, H.D. Hunter & Katie Zhao

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In Nothing Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmount by Nick Brooks, a self-proclaimed genius inventor stumbles across his ex-best friend, the new kid, and an extraterrestrial visitor in need of some serious repairs before they’re all found out. When an extraordinary flying theme park arrives above Atlanta, one boy must stop a sinister force from stealing […]